In 3rd grade, students begin to develop a more formal understanding of geometric shapes based on their defining attributes. Attributes of shapes in 3rd grade are based on geometric components like right angles and intersecting, perpendicular, and parallel ...
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Components of Shapes
Third grade geometry isn't sophisticated, but it is based on important sophisticated geometric concepts. Understanding the basic geometric components can help teachers and parents alike support students in the developments of their geometric reasoning.
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Math Fact Fluency Fun with Cootie Catchers
Do you remember the days of all your close friends huddled around a cootie catcher, moving your thumbs and index fingers while chanting? First to spell out a color, then counting, and finally waiting anxiously, hoping to reveal a fortune assuring you of wealth and ...
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Properties of 2 Dimensional Shapes
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In this post, we'll look at some activities to help students describe, analyze, and categorize shapes by their attributes. This means students are going to need multiple opportunities to work with, talk about, draw pictures of, and ...
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Using a Coordinate Plane to Review Geometry Vocabulary
Geometry is fun, but sometimes the sheer volume of vocabulary terms can be overwhelming for students. This free resource will help students review important vocabulary words. Students will plot points on a coordinate grid to create line segments, angles, and ...
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Repeated addition with arrays & equal groups
Objective: Students will build simple arrays and equal groups to build a conceptual understanding of multiplication.
Vocabulary: multiplication, array, equal group
Warm up Questions:
Multiplication is adding groups that are the same size.
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